Taapsee Pannu went on a Twitter rant calling out what she thought was hypocrisy of Sikhs of banning smoking from a film but not speaking against tobacco and liquor problems in society. The rant started shortly after the producers of the film ‘Mammarzian’ decided to cut scenes showing Sikh characters smoking. The edit wasn’t approved by the director Anurag Kashyap or the actors.
The film actress expressed her unhappiness with the following tweets:
Here is some of her Twitter rant:
My religion never taught me to censor someone’s feelings. I don’t know who gave these bunch of self proclaimed religion saviours the authority to decide what a woman can think and what not. Did u ? And if not will u stay quiet when they tell u what to think n what not ! I won’t ! pic.twitter.com/7plIgpEUi4
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) September 21, 2018
Ohooooo! Thank u so much for introducing me to the new rule that u aren’t allowed to get married into a gurudwara after u have smoked a night before. Now I shall keep that in mind when I get married. 🙏🏼 https://t.co/e0Qt06I7xW
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) September 20, 2018
Oh shit ! All 3 of us have cut our hair 🙈 now we have to protest again! Please blur out our hair in the film. It might hurt my religion’s sentiments. 😞 now how will I be called “laal pari” 😢 https://t.co/CAD5wq1CgX
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) September 20, 2018
I’m sure waheguru must have approved of drinking but not smoking. Otherwise why will such sensible and pure n pious people protest. https://t.co/1ZU8MvcMf0
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) September 20, 2018
Sirji kindly tell me where n when do u give certificate of Sikhism . I shall come n apply for that once I have gone n studied our religion YOUR way. https://t.co/ayCQnVslez
— taapsee pannu (@taapsee) September 20, 2018
MLA Manjinder Singh Sirsa responded to the tweets:
Remembering Waheguru just to promote your movie @taapsee Ji??
If you people don’t believe in any religion or Maryada; at least follow what statutory warning says – Cigarette smoking is injurious to health! https://t.co/WFZ4YJ2uM8
— Manjinder S Sirsa (@mssirsa) September 20, 2018